Elevate your standard grilled cheese recipe by topping it with a simple cream cheese, mayo, and mustard spread. This recipe will take your grilled cheese from ordinary to extraoidinary in 10 minutes flat. Searching for that perfect creamy, gooey grilled cheese? Look no further: this ultimate grilled cheese recipe is tops!

Ultimate Grilled Cheese

We've reached cheesy grilled nirvana.

By Christina Stanley

Published: July 1, 2014

Servings: 4 sandwiches

Ingredients:

cream cheese: 3 ounces

mayonnaise: 1 tablespoon

mustard: 1 teaspoon

bread: 8 slices

shredded mozzarella cheese: 1 cup

cheddar cheese: 1 cup

unsalted butter, softened: 2 tablespoons

Directions:

Step 1: In a small bowl, stir together cream cheese, mayoniase, and mustard until smooth. Spread mixture onto eight slices of bread evenly. Distribute the cheese evenly over four of the slices and top with remaining slices.

Step 2: Butter the outside of the sandwiches. Preheat a large skillet over medium heat.

Step 3: Cook sandiwches for 3--4 minutes on each side or until cheese is melted. Serve immediately.

Christina Stanley-Salerno is a recipe developer, food stylist, photographer and blogger at TakeBackYourTable.com. She has an intense passion for the family meal and as a work-at-home mother of two growing boys, knows first-hand the challenges of trying to get a meal on the table. Before going freelance, she was on-staff at Every Day with Rachael Ray where she had the pleasure of working alongside some of the best in the food business. She is now a full-time work at home mom, writing recipes for everyone from Momtastic to Parents.com. Creating simple, quick and healthy meals is her specialty and her trick to keeping the family meal a reality, even on busy weeknights.